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I am having a problem with trying to get some interface working. I'd like to ask you to bear with me, as I can't provide the script at the moment, and can't specify much.

In-game Menus (choices) -

I have created few styles for buttons, but I miss a description on how to make few versions for menus (so that on one route i can have different look of the menu than on the other one). I have solved it for frames, but I don't know where to specify menus and link the styled buttons to them. Is it even possible?

/not solved and (probably?) unsolvable in easy way/

Activable buttons in mm -

I have created new button in the main menu and want to make it not selectable depending on some persistent function (gallery, unlocks after some event), but don't know how to. Tried to setting its fourth tuple to "persistent.name = True", but that fails (I suppose because the persistent isn't specified in init). How to workaround it?

/even after == not working, but nonimportant/

That said, is there some quick guide on how to create a new menu screen accesible by a new button from Main menu? The bits are all around the guides and it's hard t get it all together... ^^;;

And lastly - where can one change the questions of Yes/No prompts? I've been trying to find it, but I still fail ^^;;;

/solved/

Thanks for any pointings out and helps to this (slightly desperate) newbie o/

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Should have two =. So it should have been "persistent.name==True".



How about this one:http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/reference/Main_and_Game_Menus
Game menus are tough to make though.

You mean the one that say 'Are you sure you want to quit?', 'Loading will make you lose unsaved progress. Are you sure you want to do this?' and 'Are you sure you want to overwrite your save?'? Not really sure but you got to look for them in the files in the renpy folder which is in the renpy-6.X.X folder. Not sure if that's a good idea though since you got to search though all the files and the changes affect all your projects.

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For the menu things, actually, I meant the choices menu, where to customize which style it will load.

I'll give an example.



Is what the default looks like. Now, say, I want the look of it on Girl 1 route use one style of choice menu buttons, and on other one different. The simpliest way would be probably defining new menu (style?) and have it like:




This menu has a look for Girl 1 route, while



gives different look.

Am I approaching it right or wrong?

The other thing, with a new window I|ll try solving myself first, with the help of Gallery template on the Wiki.

As for the Yes/No prompt texts, I think I saw them somewhere there, might be wrong. Thanks for pointing me the right way and your help ^^

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It's best not to go editing the Ren'Py source. There's almost always a way to change things in your own game, usually a much more stable and supported way than changing the Ren'Py source code yourself.

In this case, you can use config.translations() to change the text of the menus and buttons. The "Localizing_Ren'Py" reference page provides examples for how you translate things to another language; you can use the same kind of lines to just alter the wording if you want.

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Nice point out.

That's 3/4 solved, if that template helps me ^^

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Don't know. Can't really tell from your example. Probably will work.


That's pretty useful. I didn't thought of that.

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OK, since this all is for one thing, I'll add it here.

I managed to input the cookbook gallery into my script and it's working, I can alter it, and stuff.

There's one problem, though! (which is, obviously, why I am writing here ;P)

I don't want the gallery to show the navigation buttons and to return to the main menu on right-click. There'll be only three buttons for random images (which will be shown based on if commands and persistent data).
That said, I managed to turn off the navigation by setting the "def navigation" to "ui.null".
But the right-click return is somehow forbidden and I don't know this code well enough to see where it's changed. My guess is the def show part, but don't know for sure and it's tied together in a way I don't know what to add/remove.

Could anyone who understands it take a look at it, please? I don't want to break half of the useful code while making it work ^^;;

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You mean you want it to return or not to return?
If you want it to return, one way is adding this code:
in def navigation block like so:
If you don't want it to return then just jump to it with ui.jumpsoutofcontext from the main menu like so:

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I added it after the ui.null in the navigation block and it helped (there's ui.jumps("_main_menu"), btw), thank you very much ^^

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Can I piggyback a question onto yours? I can't actually get mine to run either because I need to make images for everything at the top and I don't know what



are supposed to be ...

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Okay, I got my questions answered in the IRC chat. Here's a Locked icon for the default thumbnail size if anyone wants it.

http://renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/cookbook/New_CG_Gallery

I'll also happily donate it to the Wiki.

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Hmm, I was told Movie.displayable is not possible using the Gallery, but is the Movie.cutscene one still possible?

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No, at least not with the stock code (adding a link that calls a label that just displays the movie before returning isn't that hard though).

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Oh, I get what you're saying ...

It'd come right after g.button, right? I'll have to try that. Now, why didn't I think of that instead of trying to force it through the gallery interface or a movie.displayable? ...

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Another question:

I have a problem with storing persistent data for the gallery. Once I run through the set point, the gallery unlocks, but when I restart the game, it's locked again.

I have defined the persistent data in the second init block (Not init -1 python, just init).

Am I doing something wrong? ^^;;

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